The Sea Devils, having been repeated on BBC Two in the early 90's i.e. during my own nascent Doctor Who fandom, belongs to that group of stories for which I have a nostalgic soft spot …

British rural horror meets Doctor Who in The Dæmons. There's witchcraft, demons, satanic rituals, a village in thrall to a new arrival and, most terrifying of all, traditional English folk dancing …

For the first time since The Space Pirates I had one of my memory blind spots with Colony in Space, remembering almost nothing …

Like the dedicated Doctor Who fans we are, my son and I watched the full studio recording of the first and second episodes of The Claws of Axos …

There's more than a hint of A Clockwork Orange's Ludivico technique in the Keller process  …

Terror of the Autons kicks off the eighth season of Doctor Who with much the same blend of violence and mordant wit that characterised the previous run, whilst at the same time ringing in the changes …